Free access this week to:

• Education, Business and Society
"Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss, analyse and shape the social, economic and political terrain of the Middle East. Multidisciplinary in scope, the journal will provide theory-based research, and both quantitative and qualitative empirical studies on contemporary issues and debates. The journal will also combine a region-specific orientation with a comparative approach."

Access to this title, from Volume 1 Issue 1, is available until early next week.

Wiley-Blackwell offer free access to their most read articles for 2009.

Over forty articles on topics in Management ; Human Resources ; Industrial Relations; Small Business & Entrepreneurship; CSR & Corporate Governance; Marketing; Innovation and Operations Management.

Follow this link for instant access to the Wiley-Blackwell Business and Management - Top articles of 2009

Access to the Economics, Econometrics and Finance Backfiles Collection has been added to ScienceDirect. This covers journal content published prior to 1995.

Title List: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

All titles are accessible from the Journals page on the Library Web and will be in the Catalogue mid-January 2010.

Emerald Book Portfolio contains details of key titles across a range of subject areas:
• Accounting and Finance
• Business Ethics and Law
• Economics
• Education
• Enterprise and Innovation
• Environment
• Health Care Management
• Human Resource Management
• Information and Knowledge Management
• International Business
• Language and Linguistics
• Library and Information Studies
• Management Science/Management Studies
• Marketing
• Organization Studies and etc.

You can view its full catalogue, or select a subject section here. I have noticed a few very good titles on Consumer preferences, financial economics, international business, international marketing, etc. Please have a look at the list to see any titles you are interested in to add to our Library collection.

Just a reminder that Rob Dickson, Academic Development Manager - Asia Pacific Region for Research For Libraries, will be on campus next Thursday to talk about our new Business Insights Interactive Reports System access.

Please note that the time for this event has been changed to 3.30 pm to avoid a clash with the Management Honours project presentations also taking place on Thursday.

New session details -

Thursday 15th October 2009 - 3.30 -
Level 5 Training Room - Central Library


Please do come along and meet with Rob while he is over from Sydney.
Book online here - http://webapps.libr.canterbury.ac.nz/webdb/course.php?course=183
Or just come along on the day.

Have your say! Complete our survey, and, if you are a student, be in to win one of two $150 book vouchers!

The Library wants to know how well you think it performs, in relation to what you think is important. Your opinions are valuable and will help us understand how we can work together to make the University of Canterbury Library work best for all concerned.

This is a confidential and independent survey and your honest input will make it very worthwhile. The results of the survey will be made available to you in the near future.

The survey http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/survey can be completed online 24 hours a day until Friday 16th October. It should take less than 10 minutes to complete.

We look forward to your feedback and thank you for your assistance.

EndNote's US producer, Thomson Reuters, is holding training sessions in October. One of the two New Zealand sessions will be at the University of Canterbury on Tuesday 13th October 2009. The session is free, but registration is requested. This is open to all staff and students. The Endnote invitation, and link to register, follows:

Donna Kirking, Thomson Reuter's senior EndNote trainer will lead the training session:

Date: Tuesday 13th October from 9:30am - 12.30pm
Venue: University of Canterbury, College of Education, seminar room (Wheki 302) Christchurch:
EndNote Basics - suitable for all EndNote users
Duration: 3 hours in two parts, with a 10-minute break between the two parts

Part 1: Building an EndNote Library. This covers setting basic preferences, creating a library, manual data entry, and the three ways of importing data from online databases: 1) online search, 2) direct export, and 3) importing text files.

Part 2: Cite While You Write (CWYW). This covers creating a journals term list (time permitting), and the Cite While You Write commands for both Microsoft Word 2007 and OpenOffice.org Writer 3, or CWYW in Word 2008 and Apple Pages '09.

Please register with info@crandon.com.au advising of your name, institution and e-mail address.

Please Note: This is a demonstration only. The Library runs regular hands-on EndNote training sessions which last 60 minutes and cover all you need to know about EndNote for assignments, papers and theses at UC.
Please use the UC Library online booking page to book your EndNote tutorial.

If your area of interest is deposit insurance, then this book will be of interest. It will be available on the Central Library’s new book display later this week.



Title: Deposit insurance around the world: issues of design and implementation.
Editors: Aslý Demirgüç-Kunt, Edward Kane, and Luc Laeven.
Publication details: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2008.
Classification: HG 1662 .A3 .D422 2008

“Explicit deposit insurance (DI) is widely held to be a crucial element of modern financial safety nets. For this reason, establishing a DI system is frequently recommended by outside experts to countries undergoing reform. Predictably, DI systems have proliferated in the developing world. The number of countries offering explicit deposit guarantees rose from twenty in 1980 to eighty-seven by the end of 2003. This book challenges the wisdom of encouraging countries to adopt DI without first repairing observable weaknesses in their institutional environment… Empirical evidence on the efficiency of real-world DI systems has been scarce, and analysis has focused on the experience of developed countries. The contributors to this book draw on an original cross-country dataset on DI systems and design features to examine the impact of DI on banking behavior and assess the policy complications that emerge in developing countries.”—Publisher website

“This book does it all on deposit insurance: a clear conceptual framework, new cross-country data and analyses, and insightful country studies from history and around the world. Anyone working on financial sector policy issues must read this innovative, well-written book. It truly pushes the frontiers."
—Ross Levine, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics, and Director, William R. Rhodes Center in International Economics, Brown University.

About the Editors (taken from the publisher website).
Aslý Demirgüç-Kunt is Senior Research Manager, Finance and Private Sector, in the World Bank's Development Economics Research Group. She is the coeditor of Financial Structures and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Comparison of Banks, Markets, and Development (MIT Press, 2001).

Edward J. Kane is James F. Cleary Professor in Finance at Boston College.

Luc Laeven is Senior Economist at the World Bank.

If we heed the lessons of the past, can this financial crisis we’re in lead to stronger financial institutions and renewed growth? If you’re interested in the answer then have a look at this book.



Authors: Philip Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
Title: Surviving large losses : financial crises, the middle class, and the development of capital markets.
Publishing details: Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2007.
ISBN: 9780674036369
Call number: HB 3722 .H711 2007

“Financial disasters often have long-range institutional consequences. When financial institutions--banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, stock exchanges--collapse, new ones take their place, and these changes shape markets for decades or even generations. Surviving Large Losses explains why such financial crises occur, why their effects last so long, and what political and economic conditions can help countries both rich and poor survive--and even prosper--in the aftermath.”—Publisher website.

About the authors:
Philip T. Hoffman is Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics and Professor of History California Institute of Technology.
Gilles Postel-Vinay is Director of studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is Professor of Business Economics at the California Institute of Technology.

Another Aspect Huntly offering from Morningstar - FinAnalysis has more than twelve years of detailed financial data for all stocks listed on the ASX since 1997. Both full year and interim data is provided.

Key Content Areas

P&L, balance sheet and cashflow data: - normalised to enable comparison over time.
Full breakdown of revenue and expenses as reported by the company.
Financial Analysis and Ratio pages: More than one hundred analytical variables are provided. The Sundry Analysis section includes invested capital, investor funds, cashflows and debt structure analysis. The Ratios section includes profitability, debt & safety, cashflow and valuation ratios.
Market Data: Historic share prices, market capitalisation and listed shares. Updated daily.
Price charts: Charts of historic prices and trade volumes over various time periods.
Dividend payment history.

Web-based research functions

Search Functionality: Find stocks using any combination of more than 400 ratios and data items. The results can be viewed in table or chart format and can also be downloaded.
Downloading and Reporting: All content pages and search results can be downloaded into spreadsheet format.
Peer Analysis: Carry out a comparison of a company to its peers by selecting from a variety of pre-defined measures.

Access the FinAnalysis database trial here

Please complete the online evaluation form when you've looked at FinAnalysis to support the case for a subscription or oppose it as appropriate.

DatAnalysis is produced by the Australian equity research and financial trade publisher, Aspect Huntley Pty, Ltd. now owned by Chicago-based research and mutual fund ratings company, Morningstar. The DatAnalysis database provides comprehensive data for all ASX listed companies updated daily from annual reports and relevant ASX announcements.

The Database includes -

Annual Reports in pdf
Announcements
Dividend history
Takeovers
Floats
Segmental performance

See DatAnalysis: Data Overview (pdf) for full details.

The search interface allows for simple ASX code or company name searching or very sophisticated searching across companies or sectors. For example it is possible to search for companies by Market Capitalisation value, Head Office location, auditor etc...

See DatAnalysis: Search and Reporting Guide(pdf) for details.

Access the DatAnalysis trial here

When you've looked at DatAnalysis make sure you complete the online evaluation form to have your say about the value of this database to your teaching and research.

The Engineering Library's collection of books in the classification ranges H-HD and HF-HG have been moved to the Central Library. This is to make space for the collections for Physical Sciences and Engineering to be merged in the existing Engineering Library building over summer.

Cuiying and I had a good sort through the material to remove unwanted items such as old editions and multiple copies of text books and material more readily accesable online. We were left with 25 shelves of books which are now shelved on level 4, at the end of the PQ sequence. The books will be relabelled and integrated into the regular classification sequence over time. The Library Catalogue gives accurate and current location information.

There are useful titles on Electricity Markets; Product development; Innovation Management; Project Management; Production Economics and Ecological Economics. We found a couple of Jim Collins classics and my favourite What made Gertie gallop?: Lessons from project failures by Om Prakesh Kharbanda and Jeffrey Pinto.

There are a few changes to APA style in the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The main changes are:

Use the DOI for online journals. If no DOI use the home page URL for the journal rather than the database name. The manual advises that this may necessitate a "quick web search to locate this URL".

Retrieval dates are no longer necessary for websites unless the material may change over time (e.g. Wikis).

When authors number eight or more, include the first six authors' names, then insert three dots and add the last author's name, e.g.
Yoon, P. W., Chen, B., Faucett, A., Clyne, M., Gwinn, M., Lubin, I. M., ... Muin, J. (2001) Public health impact of genetic tests at the end of the 20th century. Genetics in Medicine, 3, 405-410.

The Library's online APA Style guide has been updated to include the changes. Teachers may wish to link to this guide from course pages or refer students to it.

There is an updated EndNote style for APA 6th however the somewhat unorthodox new eight authors rule has proved too complex for EndNote to handle.

This new online encyclopedia has entries covering the range of disciplines taught in the College of Business and Economics. Available fulltext online the Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World offers students quality essays and follow up reading lists on business topics anytime, anywhere. Suitable for undergraduate students.

National Business Review has withdrawn the licence for current content from aggregator databases. This means that, effective from 28 August, the supply of the electronic version to Newztext and Factiva has been delayed by 4 weeks. The Library has taken up a subscription to NBR so that you can now get current content directly from National Business Review.

However there are some things to be aware of:
• Login to NBR is automatic; you should see logged in as uniofcanterbury
• If you see an Online subscription link (above the search box) use the Login link
• After using the Login link the screen should display Welcome Canterbury University... and locked content will be viewable
• Do not use the logout link
• Do not use sign up for daily news emails

Logging out after use is not necessary as we have unlimited users and by logging out, everyone using NBR at that time is logged out. Similarly, signing up for news emails locks NBR to others. Instead, you can use RSS feeds or follow them on the MBA Guide.

The daily news emails from NBR are Heads Up at 8.30am and Last Call at 4.30pm. If you wish to sign up for alerts please let your Subject Librarian know so that an account can be set up.